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Tribe by Sebastian Junger | Summary & Analysis Preview: Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a scientific and journalistic consideration of the correlation between societies with egalitarian tribal structures and low rates of mental illness, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers returning home. The sense of tribal belonging was documented in the eighteenth century among settlers in North America, who often joined Native American tribes even after those tribes held them as prisoners or waged war against the settlers. Those tribes were particularly egalitarian in nature, and...

Vinieron de todos los continentes a luchar en una guerra lejana para ellos. Miles de hombres y mujeres que dejaron sus familias y sus países para venir a España a combatir junto al ejército republicano e intentar frenar el avance del fascismo en Europa. Rémi Skoutelsky, historiador especializado en la materia, ofrece un relato indispensable para conocer todos los detalles sobre la actuación de los brigadistas que protagonizaron uno de los episodios clave en la historia de nuestro país.

Historia del Buen Retiro es una reedición ampliada y revisada del libro, editado en 1991 por el Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Rosario Mariblanca nos cuenta la historia del parque desde sus orígenes, cuando sólo se levantaba en sus terrenos un monasterio a las afueras, hasta su condición actual de centro de ocio de la ciudad. Una crónica exhaustiva de uno de los rincones más populares del Madrid actual, habitado en tiempos sólo por reyes que celebraron aquí sus mayores fiestas.

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